A grieving mother has shared how she could not hold the hand of her teenage daughter after she was murdered by her obsessed ex-boyfriend - as she was a “crime scene” Logan MacPhail , now 17, stabbed 15-year-old Holly Newton 36 times in an alleyway after stalking her for an hour through Hexham, Northumberland, in January 2023. He was convicted following a trial at Newcastle Crown Court. Today, at the first day of his sentencing hearing at Newcastle crown court, Holly’s mother Micala Trussler